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Ah. Ok, well. It's (supposed) to be mugging season again. Life as a student is bleak. Just when you think all your projects and term papers are over, you realise your exams are looming ahead. SIGH. I feel I just woke up from a nightmare, only to realise I'm in the middle of another nightmare. It's like a nightmare within a nightmare haha.

Anyway, WHERE'S MY SENSE OF URGENCY???

I'm still happily lala-ing away. Like I was out the whole of today, and the only productive thing I did was to finish my Econs tutorial. I need urgency to come back! I need to be more kan cheong!

Oh I just remembered what I wanted to blog about haha. Yesterday, Tony Blair came to NUS to speak about global governance. I watched his speech on NUS webcast, which was quite sad, cuz I really wanted to go but I kinda forgot to sign up till someone reminded me yesterday, and it was already too late. I need to keep my eyes peeled open for events like these, and to learn to take more initiative in such matters, instead of conveniently forgetting about them haha.

He was quite entertaining and humorous. And his ideas were really relevant, like he talked about how interconnected the world is right now, among other stuff like terrorism and climate changes. Oh and how the best way to solve all these problems is to form alliances with each other. I thought it was quite good. Too bad the Q and A session had to be cut short. Haha if only Tony Blair were my Political Science lecturer. I'd go for every lecture man.

Then later that night, I caught the movie 'Lions for Lambs'. It's a political drama by the way, not a cartoon haha. Actually it's more like a documentary cuz it kinda reflects the current sentiment in America regarding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I thought that it was quite good, though the ending was quite unsatisfying. You kinda wished there'd be more, but then again, I guess even if there was an ending, it wouldn't really reflect reality. And it'd still be unsatisfying. The dialogue was pretty thought-provoking, though it was quite biased against the current US administration. By the way, the title came about from a quote by a German general during WWI about the British troops, "'Nowhere have I seen such lions led by such lambs." Like the brave ones were being led by the weak and useless.

So there you have it, this is how I spent potential mugging time. But it was worth it la haha. As much as I think politics is interesting, I'd gladly prefer to be politically apathetic, and stay in my own happy bubble. Cuz really, there's no end to it.

And I really really should concentrate on more pressing matters at hand. Like my exams!!! GAHH.

And it's just my luck to end up getting stuck
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